panacea

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

substantive

Use remedy.

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

pănăcēa: ae, f., pănăces, is, n., also pănax, ăcis, m., = πανάκεια, πανακές, πάναξ.
I An herb to which was ascribed the power of healing all diseases, all-heal, panacea, catholicon; on the different kinds, v. Plin. 25, 4, 11, § 30 sq.: odorifera panacea, Verg. A. 12, 419: panaces ipso nomine omnium morborum remedia promittit, Plin. 25, 4, 11, § 30: panax levi et subactā terrā rarissime disseritur, Col. 11, 3, 29.—
II A plant, called also ligusticum silvestre: ligusticum silvestre panacem aliqui vocant, Plin. 19, 8, 50, § 165.—Form panaces, Plin. 20, 16, 60, § 168.—
III A plant: pastinaca opopinax.—Form panax, Plin. 12, 26, 57, § 127.
   2    Personified: Pănăcēa, ae, f., one of the four daughters of Æsculapius, Plin. 35, 11, 40, § 137.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

(1) pănăcēa,¹⁶ æ, f. Virg. En. 12, 419 ; pănăcēs, is, n. Plin. 25, 30 ; pănax, ăcis, m., Col. Rust. 11, 3, 29, panax, livèche [plantes].

Latin > German (Georges)

panacēa, ae, f. u. panaces, is, n. u. panax, acis, m. (πανάκεια, πάνακες, πάναξ, eig. alles heilend daher) I) eine erdichtete Pflanze, die für alles helfen soll, Panazee, Allheilkraut, Form -ea, Verg. Aen. 12, 419. Lucan. 9, 918. Pelagon. veterin. 28 (400 Ihm): Form -es, Cels. 3, 21. p. 107, 13 u. 5, 27. no. 12. p. 204, 20 D. (wo panaces als fem.). Plin. 25, 30 sqq. (wo panaces als neutr.): Form -ax, Colum. 11, 3, 29. Cael. Aur. de morb. acut. 2, 29, 154. – II) die auch ligusticum silvestre gen. Pflanze, Form -ax, Plin. 19, 165: Form -es, Plin. 20, 168. – Plur. panaces, Lucr. 4, 122. – III) eine Pflanze, Heilwurz (Pastinaca opopanax, L.), Form -ax, Plin. 12, 127. – IV) personif. Panacea, ae, f., eine der vier Schwestern des Äskulap, Plin. 35, 137.

Latin > English

panacea panaceae N F :: plant (medicinal); panacea, heal-all; kind of savory; daughter of Aesculapius